Healthy Soup Recipes for Children: Nourishing and Delicious Options

December 20, 2023

Parents are concerned about the healthy diet of children, so it is a good idea to cook soup for children regularly. So, what are some soup recipes suitable for children? Let me introduce them to you.


 

  【Soup Recipes Suitable for Children】

   1: Loach Soup

  Ingredients: Loach + Job's tears + Chinese yam + Coix seed.

  Method:

  1. Buy the loach and sprinkle a few spoonfuls of salt directly in the bag. The loach will naturally keep moving and the mucus on its body will fall off.

  2. Then rinse the loach with water without gutting it. Heat a little oil in a pot, stir-fry the loach, add four bowls of water, and simmer for a while.

  3. Transfer the loach and add Job's tears, Chinese yam, and Coix seed to a small pot and simmer until thick. The soup can be consumed directly or used to cook noodles or porridge.

  Benefits: For children who sweat a lot, are physically weak, or have excessive sweating after illness. It is specifically used to reduce sweating in children. Many children have heat rash now, but it can be reduced by reducing sweating first.

   2: Fish Bone Soup

  Ingredients: Large fish bones, cut into pieces. Carrots + Soybeans + White fungus.

  Method:

  1. Slightly fry the fish bones in a pot, peel and slice the carrots, and stir-fry them. Then add water.

  2. After boiling for ten minutes, transfer to a soup pot, add soybeans and white fungus. The soup can be consumed directly or used to cook noodles or porridge.

  Benefits: Increase calcium, moisturize, and remove dampness.

   3: Chicken Feet and Peanut Soup

  Ingredients: Chicken feet, peanuts, red dates, ginger, green onion, cooking wine, and pepper.

  Method:

  1. Cut the chicken feet open, boil water, add the chicken feet and cook over high heat. Add a tablespoon of cooking wine without covering the pot and cook again, then remove and wash.

  2. Wash the peanuts and red dates, and slice the ginger.

  3. Put all the ingredients in a pot, simmer for one hour, add salt and pepper, and continue to simmer for half an hour. Add sesame oil or coriander before serving.

  Benefits: Refreshing aroma, helps children stay alert, relieves fatigue, and strengthens muscles and bones.

   4: Winter Melon and Kelp Soup

  Ingredients: Winter melon, kelp, oil, salt.

  Method:

  1. Peel and core the winter melon, and cut into slices.

  2. Soak the kelp for about half an hour, wash it with clean water, and cut it into long strips.

  3. Add an appropriate amount of oil to the pot, heat it, then add the kelp and winter melon, and stir-fry.

  4. Add enough boiling water to the pot, simmer for about 8 minutes, add salt, and the soup is ready.

  Benefits: Provides children with iodine, high nutritional value, and also helps to relieve heat.


 

  【Foods that Improve Children's Memory】

  1. Peanuts.

  According to reports, peanuts are rich in lecithin and phospholipids, which are important substances needed by the nervous system. They can delay brain function decline, inhibit platelet aggregation, and prevent the formation of cerebral thrombosis.

  2. Milk.

  Milk is an almost perfect nutritional supplement. The benefits of drinking milk are: milk is rich in protein, calcium, and essential amino acids for the brain. The calcium it contains is easily absorbed by the body and is an essential substance for brain metabolism.

  3. Fish.

  Fish is good, especially deep-sea fish. The benefits of eating fish regularly are to maintain mental agility, which is the latest research finding. Eating fish once a week has benefits for delaying aging, enhancing intelligence, and promoting brain health.

  4. Eggs.

  The flow of brain function and the strength of memory are closely related to the acetylcholine content in the brain. Scientific experiments have shown that the advantage of eating eggs lies in the fact that when the abundant lecithin in the egg yolk is broken down by enzymes, it can produce abundant acetylcholine, which quickly enters the blood and reaches the brain tissue, enhancing memory.

  5. Millet.

  Millet contains more vitamin B1 and B2 than rice, and its protein contains more tryptophan and methionine. Clinical observations have found that eating millet has anti-aging effects. If you usually eat millet porridge or millet rice, it will help brain health.

  【Foods Children Should Avoid Eating Too Much】

  1. Oranges

  Oranges contain lycopene. Eating too many oranges can cause "lycopene skin disease," abdominal pain, diarrhea, and even bone disease.

  2. Spinach

  Spinach contains a large amount of oxalic acid, which forms calcium oxalate and zinc oxalate in the body, which is not easily absorbed and is excreted.

  3. Eggs

  If eggs are eaten in excess, it will increase the content of cholesterol in the body and may cause nutrient excess.

  4. Strong tea

  Strong tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, which forms tannic acid iron in the body, which is difficult to absorb and may cause iron deficiency in the body.

  5. Jelly

  Jelly is made from thickeners, flavorings, colorings, and sweeteners. Eating too much or eating it often can affect children's growth and development and intellectual health.

  6. Salted fish

  Various salted fish contain a large amount of dimethyl nitrosamine, which can be converted into highly carcinogenic dimethyl nitrosamine after entering the human body.

  7. Bubble gum

  The plasticizers in bubble gum contain trace amounts of toxins, and their metabolites, phenol, are also harmful to the human body.

  8. Saccharin

  Consuming large amounts of saccharin can cause blood, heart, lung, peripheral nerve diseases, and damage to the stomach, kidney, gallbladder, and bladder.

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